Common Core

From educator and education blogger Ken Previti No two fingerprints are alike. Your child is forced to comply with state mandated, high stakes tests that label each one for life in order to profit a few multinational corporate investors and the legislators they finance. Children have more individual differences than their fingerprints do. REFUSE. OPT…

From TRUTH IN AMERICAN EDUCATION; Last week the special education teacher announced she was resigning at the end of the year due to Common Core testing. Ohio is set to implement PARCC. The Chronicle-Telegram reports: Gasps of disbelief followed the announcement made during an education forum aimed at unraveling for parents the intricacies of the…

Jonathan Pelto is an education blogger and founder and manager of the Education Bloggers Network. HIs blog, What, What? can be found at: http://jonathanpelto.com/ School Superintendents! Stop harassing parents for opting their children out of the Common Core SBAC Test With the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Testing beginning in less than a month,…

From education advocate and education blogger Marie Corfield. You can read her blog at: http://mcorfield.blogspot.com/ 12 questions every parent must ask about the #PARCC Parents, print this out and bring it with you next time you meet with representatives from the NJ State Board of Education, the NJ DOE, or any administrator anywhere who tries to…

From Diane Ravitch at http://dianeravitch.net/ Jeb, Arne, and Barack: Unlikely Buddies This scintillating article by Alex Leary in the Tampa Bay Times explores the curious but close alliance between Jeb Bush and the Obama administration. Jeb, Arne, and Barack are on the same page. They all believe in testing, high-stakes, charter schools, closing schools, and the…

Nancy Bailey was a special education for many years. She left teaching due to the current reforms that are taking over the nation’s classrooms. She is now an education blogger and author, writing about the teaching profession and public schools that are critically important to the future of America and its children. Her book is…

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